Horribly low specs for anything digital..... but as for the IRQ problem:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;314068
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Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging
http://www.coribright.com/windows



<louloizides@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I'm working on an embedded computer application that's running a
> stripped down version of Windows XP. The mainboard has a Cyrix MediaGX
> processor equivalent to a Pentium 233 MMX. I put an All In Wonder card
> 128 pro in there and expected to be able to watch TV and get watchable
> (even if it's a little jerky) DVD playback since the board has a
> hardware decoder. Instead, windows completely freezes every time I try
> to watch TV and the DVD playback is not watchable (maybe 1 frame per
> second at the most).
>
> According to the ATI website, the All In Wonder 128 pro requires an IRQ
> to be set to the card to get the TV tuner to work. Unfortunately, my
> bios has no option for "assign IRQ to VGA". Windows, meanwhile, only
> shows the card in memory - not with an IRQ assigned. I have freed up
> several IRQs in the bios and have tried readding all the Windows XP
> components I took out, but still no IRQs get assigned.
>
> I kind of think that this might be part of the trouble, but I have no
> idea how to assign an IRQ because I can't uncheck "use automatic
> settings" in windows. Is there a way to force the settings to change?
> Am I stuck with no IRQ assigned?
>